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CoronavirusIsrael By Hamodia Staff YERUSHALAYIM - Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 10:57 pm | ב טבת תשפ"א Palestinian municipality and civil defense workers take part in a street cleaning and sterilization in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) The United Arab Emirates shipped coronavirus aid to the Gaza Strip on Thursday through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Hamas said. “The medical supplies which arrived from the Emirates are important for Gaza. We thank...

118 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend the arrival of the DHL freight plane transporting the first batch of Pfizer vaccines landing at Ben Gurion Airport on December 9 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL) Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch said Thursday that because Israel plans to obtain more than enough coronavirus vaccines for its citizens, it may offer any excess to the Palestinian Authority, which is currently relying on a World Health Organi...

0 shares The Shin Bet security service will stop its using its controversial phone surveillance measures to help track down potential coronavirus carriers from January 20, according to the Kan public broadcaster. The agency will continue to use the measure on those who refuse to cooperate with contact tracing efforts, the report says. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty and meaning. Im pr...

4 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms he’ll get the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday night, becoming the first Israeli to get inoculated. He confirms the news in a tweet. “On Saturday night, I will get the vaccine for the coronavirus. I asked to be first to serve as an example and to persuade you to get vaccinated. By the end of January, we will bring millions of vaccines to Israel. I worked hard to bring them and I ask you — please use them,” he tweets. Im proud ...

A top Health Ministry official says the government should have ordered stores to close last week to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis’s comments in a radio interview come after Israel logged nearly 3,000 new cases on Tuesday, a two-month high. “The data is clear. We are on our way to ‘tightened restraint’ [the government restrictions to close down commercial activity, which fall short of a lockdown]. We should have started last week. Commerce must be shut down. ...

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein says other countries have been asking Israel to help them obtain coronavirus vaccines. “Countries are contacting us and asking for Israel’s help in obtaining vaccines,” Edelstein tells Army Radio, and not “exotic countries you haven’t heard of either.” He laments widespread health violations by Israelis who have traveled to Dubai, accusing them of flouting local regulations. Edelstein says the Emiratis, who recently forged diplomatic ties with Israel, ...

0 shares The Health Ministry records another 1,476 virus cases since midnight, with the number of serious COVID-19 cases nearing 400. It says 2,888 new infections were diagnosed on Tuesday, a two-month high. Of the 20,255 active cases, 393 are in serious condition, 152 of them on ventilators. Another 168 are in moderate condition, with the rest displaying mild or no symptoms. The death toll stands at 3,031.   Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life ...

0 shares Dutch prosecutors say a man had cracked US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October, despite denials from Washington and the company, but adds that the so-called “ethical hacker” would not face charges. The man, named as Victor Gevers in Dutch media, reportedly hacked into Trump’s account @realDonaldTrump by guessing his password on October 16, Dutch media reports say. Both the White House and Twitter have strenuously denied reports that the account had been ha...

0 shares America’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo is in quarantine after being exposed to a person who has tested positive for COVID-19, the State Department says. The US secretary of state “has been tested and is negative. In accordance with CDC guidelines, he will be in quarantine. He is being closely monitored by the Department’s medical team,” a State Department spokesperson says, adding that for privacy reasons they could not identify the person he came into contact with. — AFP ...